Here is another personal writing I did years ago. I know it is cliché to write about trees and their connections to everything. However, they are just beautiful and inspiring thing to work into pieces.
My Life Tree
My roots are deep
Buried with Love and Hardship
Growing at the perfect rate
Living life while laughing the whole time
Not wanting to wait while getting from point A to point B
But still enjoying every last minute in between
Slow and steady wins the race
My Trunk grows round
Expanding with all the experiences of life
All the things I’ve encountered
The sun shinning and warming me up
The rain beating down, yet giving me sustenance
Storms raging all around and slamming into me
Attempting to tear me down
A beautiful breeze giving me the kindness and love
Which helps me keep on going
My trunk may have gashes and knots
But what trunk is prefect?
My branches are long
They stretch to all my favorite people and places
Both near and far
Getting lost in the branches is only half the fun
Look around and finding my hideouts tucked into them
Some of the limbs are broken and some splitting
As they reach to some of the places
Pain has placed roadblocks down those paths
Each needing time to mend and heal
Never quite the same but still surviving afterwards
Life is a about the journey not a destination
My leaves are Free
They travel to all the destinations yet to be seen
And drift back towards the memories I’ve made
Scattering all my hopes
Falling where I’m supposed to go
Spinning in the air as they carelessly plummet towards reality
Not changing or withering away
Developing their own personalities
Being who they were born to be.
I’m from a place of my own
Imagination roams all around
Stories help pass the time
Emotions help feed the days
Adventures help grow the soul
This Life helps build my Tree
